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    The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) and parts of five counties, and having 30,340...
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  • of oil. The amount of recoverable oil in the field is more than double that of the next largest field in the United States by acreage (the East Texas Oil...
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    to Texas Oil Boom. Oil and Gas Industry (Texas State Historical Association) A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and...
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    of Texas regions List of museums in East Texas East Texas Oil Field Houston Texas Country Music Hall of Fame Texas State Railroad Battle of the Piney Woods...
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    The Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the...
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    of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East, but there...
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    largest oil field in the country by total oil in place (around 27 billion barrels of mostly heavy oil), though Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and the East Texas...
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    H. L. Hunt (category Texas Oil Boom people)
    secured title to much of the East Texas Oil Field, one of the world's largest oil deposits. He acquired rights to East Texas oil lands initially through a...
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  • Ramsey, Illinois. During the 1930s, he bought the title for the East Texas Oil Field for $1,000,000, and became one of the eight richest Americans until...
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    to the census. By that time, the economy had stabilized, but the East Texas Oil Field, extending into five counties, has continued to be important to the...
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  • Wildcatter (redirect from Wildcat oil wells)
    responsible for finding the East Texas Oil Field in 1930. The term was used in the early oil industry in western Pennsylvania. Oil wells in unproven territory...
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    major oil well at Spindletop, a small hill south of Beaumont, Texas. The East Texas Oil Field, discovered on October 5, 1930, is located in east central...
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  • Columbus Marion Joiner (category Texas Oil Boom people)
    discovery well of the East Texas Oil Field of the 1930s. Newspaper articles referred to Joiner as the Daddy of the Rusk County Oil Field.: 6, 70, 288  Born...
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    discovery of the East Texas Oil Field in the 1930s led to a boom in production that caused prices to fall, leading the Railroad Commission of Texas to control...
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    Petrolia Oil Field is a North Texas segment of land located in Clay County, Texas and the Great Plains. The hydrocarbon exploration site was geographically...
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  • The interest in hydrogenation evaporated after discovery of the East Texas Oil Field. As a part of the cooperation between Jersey Standard and IG Farben...
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    area. The movement of salt water into the western edge of the large East Texas Oil Field affected Gladewater first. By 1980 the town had a total of 6,548...
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    major oil well at Spindletop, a small hill south of Beaumont, Texas. The East Texas Oil Field, discovered on October 5, 1930, is located in east central...
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  • This is a list of oil and gas fields operated by BP. All fields in British territory are operated as part of the BP's North Sea Strategic Performance...
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    mid-twentieth century, a slant-drilling scandal occurred in the huge East Texas Oil Field. Between 1985 and 1993, the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL)...
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    Mid-continent oil field is a broad area containing hundreds of oil fields in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The...
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    The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay. Discovered in 1903, and reaching maximum production in 1918 after a...
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    The Salt Lake Oil Field is an oil field underneath the city of Los Angeles, California. Discovered in 1902, and developed quickly in the following years...
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    Oil Field Category:People from Anderson County, Texas List of counties in Texas E.R. Bills wrote The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East...
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    Woodbine Group (category Texas articles missing geocoordinate data)
    collectively referred to as the "Eaglebine" oil and gas play in the southwestern portion of the East Texas region. Dinosaur and crocodilian remains are...
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    Montrose oil field is a significant crude oil producing field in the UK sector of the central North Sea, 210 km east of Aberdeen. Production of oil started...
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    Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt...
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    West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for...
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    struck oil near the neighboring town of Henderson. The well known as the Daisy Bradford #3, marked the discovery of the vast East Texas Oil Field. Seemingly...
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    Margaret Hunt Hill (category Philanthropists from Texas)
    60th Anniversary of the Discovery of the East Texas Oil Field. The ceremony was held at the East Texas Oil Field Museum, which she helped create. She sat...
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